Sara Schaff is a 2025 NYSCA Support for Artists Grant Recipient, a 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction, and the author of the story collections The Invention of Love (Split/Lip Press 2020) and Say Something Nice About Me (Augury Books 2016), a CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in fiction and a 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for short fiction. Her writing has appeared in Catapult, Kenyon Review Online, Gay Magazine, The Missouri Review, Yale Review Online, The Belladonna, Michigan Quarterly Review, LitHub, and elsewhere.

A graduate of Brown University and the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Michigan, Sara has taught at Oberlin College, the University of Michigan, and St. Lawrence University, as well as in China, Colombia, and Northern Ireland, where she also studied storytelling. She is an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, where she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and screenwriting and serves as the executive editor of Saranac Review. The recipient of a 2022 Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave Award from New York State and United University Professions, she lives in the North Country of New York with her husband, the poet Benjamin Landry, and their daughter.